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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-agency-arrangements-specification-order-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/989",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-agency-arrangements-specification-order-2024",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Order paves the way for the Scottish Ministers and a Minister of the Crown to enter into agency arrangements, under which a Minister of the Crown can exercise certain social security functions relating to winter heating assistance on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. Any such arrangements would require to be agreed between a Minister of the Crown and the Scottish Ministers.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/989/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:12.104440+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}